The Cedar Mesa Project

Basic Human Rights

"Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life
contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy,
empathy, peacefulness, power to forgive."
Schweitzer, Albert, The Teaching of Reverence for Life, Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1965. p.41

BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS:

Each person has a right to be treated respectfully.

Each person has the right to say no without explanation and
without guilt.

Each person has the right to slow down and take time to think.

Each person has the right to change his or her mind.

Each person has the right to ask for what he or she wants.

Each person has the right to ask for information.

Each person has the right to make mistakes.

Each person has the right to make choices and accept the
consequences of those choices.

Each person has the right to own and express his or her own
feelings.

Each person has the right to ask for help.

Each person has the right to maintain a separate self that is
independent of the expectations, the approval, or the influence of
others.